Happy 50th Birthday: Evgeny Bareev

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Submitted by John Upper on Sun, 11/20/2016 - 19:04

Evgeny Bareev turns 50 today! (November 21, 2016)

Evgeny Bareev is:

  • Four time Olympiad gold medalist (USSR 1990, Russia in 1994, '96, and '98)
  • World U16 Champion (1982)
  • Second for Vladimir Kramnik during his successful World Championship matches against Kasparov (2000), and Leko (2004).

The Russian-born GM has been living in Toronto since 2010. In 2015 he had FIDE change his federation to Canada, and at the 2016 Baku Olympiad he played board 1 for the Canadian team, where they finished 11th overall after losing a last-round match to the gold-medal-winning USA team on board 1.

To mark the occasion, we have a sort of "reverse present": a gift from the birthday boy to you. Evgeny Bareev annotates one of his wins from the 2016 Baku Olympiad.

In his notes he says that in a particularly difficult position, he had "only his belief in the endless resources of the game" to keep his hopes alive.

Here's hoping he keeps finding reasons to believe in the endless resources of the game.

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Evgeny Bareev's notes to this and one other game will appear -- along with notes from teammates Eric Hansen, Alex Le Siege, and Tomas Krnan -- in a special Olympiad Issue of Chess Canada, the CFC's electronic newsletter.

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